CURRICULUM VITAE

John A. Rapp

ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE

Home: 1214 La Salle Office:Political Science
  Beloit, WI  53511   Beloit College
  tel.: (608) 365-6194   700 College St.
      Beloit, WI  53511
Internet: rappja@beloit.edu   tel: (608) 363-2335
      fax: (608) 363-2718

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  • Professor, Department of Political Science, Fall 1998-present
  • Associate Professor, Beloit College, Fall 1992-Spring 1998
  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Fall 1992
  • Assistant Professor, Beloit College, Fall 1987-Spring 1992
  • Instructor, Beloit College, Fall 1986-Spring 1987
  • Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 1985, Summer 1984
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981-1985

SELECTED CLASSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Politics
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Politics of Advanced Industrial Democracies
Communist and Post-Communist Systems
Chinese Politics
Democracy in East Asia
Topics in Comparative Politics:

  • Comparative Electoral Systems
  • Anarchism as Theory and Movement
  • Political Fiction
  • Democratization
  • Divided Nations
  • Chinese Dissent
  • Comparative Dissent

ADMINSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Director, Asian Studies Programming (administering Freeman Foundation grant), Beloit College, 2002-2005;
  • Organizer and Leader, Beloit College Faculty/Staff study trip to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, and Guangzhou, March 4-14, 2005;
  • Founder and Chair, Asian Studies Program, Beloit College, 1987-1998; 2002-2004;
  • Chair, Department of Political Science, Beloit College, 1996-1999;
  • Deputy Chair, Department of Political Science, Beloit College, 1994-1995;
  • Director, Center for Language Studies, Beloit College (summer intensive language institute), Fall 1988-Summer 1989;
  • Chair, European Studies Program, Beloit College, 1997-1998.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Pacific Cultural Foundation Research Grant in Chinese Studies, Fall 2000;
  • Beloit College faculty sabbatical grant, Spring 2007, Spring 2000, and 1992/1993;
  • Mouat Chair for Younger Faculty in International Studies, Beloit College, 1992-96;
  • Great Lakes Colleges Association Travel Grant to Japan, November 1992;
  • Program on Institutional Collaboration in Area Studies Faculty Long-Term Research Grant, Ann Arbor, MI, Fall 1992;
  • NEH Study Grant for College and University Teachers, Beloit, WI and Budapest, Hungary, May-July 1992;
  • Nomination by the University of Wisconsin for the Gabriel Almond Prize of the American Political Science Association, Spring1989;
  • Knapp Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984-85;
  • FLAS Title VI Fellowship, University of Minnesota-Nankai University Summer Language Institute, Summer 1983;
  • Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships, 1981.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1988, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Area of Specialization: Political Science
  • Preliminary Exam Fields: Comparative Politics-China (Passed with Distinction);International Relations; Political  Philosophy
  • Dissertation: "Despotism and Leninist State Autonomy: The Chinese Asiatic Mode of Production Debates in Comparative Perspective

MA, 1978, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

  • Area of Specialization: East Asian Studies
  • Thesis: "Taoism and Anarchy: An Analysis of the Political Critique in Philosophical Taoism and Its Comparison with the  Western Philosophy of Anarchism"

BA, 1975, The American University, Washington, D.C.

  • Degree Conferred cum laude
  • Major: International Studies, with Certificate of Asian Study

FACULTY SEMINAR SELECTIONS

  • Beloit College Faculty/Staff travel seminar to Budapest, Hungary, May, 2006;
  • Beloit College Faculty/Staff travel seminar to Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China, March 4-13, 2005;
  • Beloit College Interdisciplinary Studies/Experiential Education workshop, June 1-4, 2004;
  • Information Literacy Forum, Beloit College library, May 24-27, 2004;
  • NTLE Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop, “GIS Across the Curriculum,” Middlebury College, July 21-25, 2003;
  • Summer Workshop on International Education, Beloit College, 1998;
  • Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Faculty Development Seminar, "Colonialism, Capitalism, Communism: Hong Kong 1997," Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 22-28, 1992;
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Washington, D.C. Diplomatic Study Tour, "East Asia and the Pacific Rim," April 10-13, 1991;
  • APSA Seminar, "Japan: A Comparative Perspective," San Francisco, CA, August 26-September 1, 1990;
  • CIEE Faculty Development Seminar, "A United Germany: Implications for the Future," Berlin, June 17-23, 1990.

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors: Comparing Chairman Mao and Ming Taizu (coauthored with Anita M. Andrew), Lanham  MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000;

China's Debate on the Asiatic Mode of Production (guest editor), Chinese Law and Government, 21: 2 (Summer 1989).

Articles and Chapters

“Daoism as Utopian or Accommodationist: Radical Daoism Reexamined in Light of the Guodian Manuscripts,” in  Laurence Davis and Ruth Kinna (eds.), Anarchism and Utopianism, University of Manchester Press, forthcoming;

“Utopian, Anti-Utopian, and Dystopian Ideas in Philosophical Daoism,” special issue of Comparative Asian Development on “Utopianism in Chinese Political Culture,” 2:2 (Fall 2003): 211- 231;

“Chinese Politics and Government,” Chapter 3 of Andre Robert La Fleur (ed.), China: A Global Studies Handbook (NY: ABC Clio Press, 2003);

“Maoism and Anarchism: Mao Zedong’s Response to the Anarchist Critique of Marxism,” Anarchist Studies, 9 (2001):3-28;

“Daoism and Anarchism Reconsidered,” Anarchist Studies 6: 2 (1998): 123-151;

“Introduction to China’s Debate on the Asiatic Mode of Production,” Chinese Law and Government 21:2(Summer 1989):3-26;

"China's Debate on the Asiatic Mode of Production,” Theory and Society 16 (1987): 709-740;

"Anarchism (in China)," "Lin Biao," "Peng Dehuai," "Democracy Wall," and over 30 other entries, Encyclopedia of Asian History (New York: MacMillan, 1987).

Review Essays:

“Chinese Marxism,” Theory and Society 21:4 (August 1992): 593- 609;

“Intellectuals and the Chinese State,” Theory and Society 18(1989): 869-883.

Individual Book Reviews:

Wong Yu-Chung (ed.), ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in Crisis, Journal of Chinese Political Science 10: 1 (April 2005): 86;

Hu Shaohua, Explaining Chinese Democratization, Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) 61: 1 (February 2002): 220-221;

Kalpana Misra, From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism, China Review International 6: 2 (Fall 1999): 504-507;

Robert P. Weller, Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen, China Review International 1995;

Fu Zhengyuan, Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics, JAS 53: 4 (November 1994): 1189- 1192;

Arif Dirlik, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23: 2 (Autumn 1992);

Brendan O'Leary.  The Asiatic Mode of Production, JAS 50: 1 (February 1991): 118-119;

Scott Simmie and Bob Nixon, Tiananmen Square, JAS49: 4 (November, 1990): 915-916;

Peter P. Cheng (ed.), Marxism and Capitalism in the People's Republic of China, JAS 48: 4 (November 1989): 821-822;

Ten Reviews for Choice, 1988-1991.

PANELS AND PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Discussant, Panel on “Anarchism, Gender, and Beyond: Discourses and Practices of Social change in Early 20th Century China,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 21, 2007;

Presenter, “Daoism as Utopian or Accommodationist: Radical Daoism Reexamined in the Light of the Guodian Manuscripts,” Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society-Europe, Tarragona, Spain, July 6, 2006;

Discussant, Panel on "Prospects of Democratic Transition in China," Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, April 20, 2006;

Organizer, “Continuity and Change in Contemporary Japanese Society: A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers,” Beloit College, March 31-April 1, 2005;

Organizer and moderator, panels and events related to “Hong Kong and Shanghai: Competing Chinese Cities in Transition?: A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers,” Beloit College, November 4-6, 2004;

Lead Organizer and moderator, events and panels related to visit of Dai Qing to Beloit College as Distinguished Marvin Weisberg Chair of international Relations, April 2004;

Organizer, chair, and presenter, panel on “Enhancing Cooperation between Graduate Research Institutions and Liberal Arts Colleges in Asian Studies,” AsiaNetwork Annual Meeting, Lisle Illinois, April 2004;

Organizer, “Teaching Confucian Values: A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers, Beloit College, November 17-18, 2003;

Organizer, “Teaching Greater China: A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers,” November 24-25, 2003;

Co-organizer, “Summer Teachers’ Institute: Teaching East and Southeast Asia: Resources for the Classroom,” with Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb and Rockford, IL, and Beloit College, June 16-20, 2003;

Organizer, “Integrating East Asian Geography into the Social Studies Curriculum: A Workshop for Middle And High School Teachers,” Beloit College, Saturday, December 14, 2002;

Organizer, “Teaching the Basics of Chinese and Japanese Culture for the 21st Century: A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers,” Beloit College, October 18-19, 2002;

Paper presenter, "Utopian, Anti-Utopian, and Dystopian Ideas in Philosophical Daoism," American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Boston, August 29-September 1, 2002;

Organizer, panel on “Nature, Culture, Text: Siting Feminine Values in Imperial China," AAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March, 22-25, 2001;

Paper presenter, “Daoism and Feminism: A Three Way Critique,” AAS Annual Meeting, March 22-25, 2001;

Paper presenter, “Using Novels and Films to Teach Comparative Political Ideologies,” teaching panel for the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Chicago, IL, February 20-24, 2001;

Discussant, panel on “Interpreting Chinese Politics,” APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, September 3, 1999;

Discussant, panel on “Chinese Economy and Politics,” International Convention of Asia Scholars, the Netherlands, June 28, 1998;

Organizer and Chair, panel on “Daoism as an Anti-Authoritarian Alternative in Chinese Culture," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), DeKalb, Illinois, September 27, 1997;

Paper Presenter, "Is Daoism Really Anarchism: A Comparison of Wei-Jin Daoists and Western Anarchists," MCAA, Sep. 27, 1997;

Organizer and Chair, "Third Party National Conference," Beloit College, September 20-21, 1996;

Organizer, chair, and participant, "Mao at 100: New Reappraisals," Roundtable Panel for the Annual Meeting of the AAS, Boston, March, 1994;

Co-Participant, "The Legacy of Chairman Mao: A Debate," Midwest Radical Scholars Conference, Chicago, IL, December 1993;

Co-Lecturer (with Anita Andrew), Center for Chinese Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 1992;

Discussant, "Workshop on Curriculum Development," Asian-Pacific Challenge Conference, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, February 28-29; March 1, 1992;

Paper Presenter, "Ming Taizu and Chairman Mao," Midwest China Seminar, Chicago, March 16, 1991;

Discussant, Panel on "Reform in China," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 5, 1990;

Organizer and Moderator, Symposium, "China and the USA: The Mutual Influence" Beloit College, Nov. 4-5, 1987;

Discussant, Panel on "Reform in the People's Republic of China," Wisconsin Political Science Association Annual Meeting, October 1987;

Organizer, Chair, and Paper Presenter, "Marxism in Post-Mao China," MCAA, October 3, 1986;

Organizer and Moderator, "Human Rights in China and Taiwan," University of Minnesota, April 19th, 1985.

MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Political Science Association (APSA);
  • Association for Asian Studies (AAS);
  • Center for Voting and Democracy (CVD);
  • Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)

REFERENCES

Professor Edward Friedman, Department of Political Science,
 University of Wisconsin, 110 North Hall, Madison, WI 53706;

Professor M. Crawford Young, Department of Political Science,
 University of Wisconsin, 110 North Hall, Madison, WI 53706;

Professor Beth Dougherty, Political Science, Beloit College

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